according to a site called democracymatrix there are 35 countries more democratic than the us

the countries
  • Denmark
  • Norway
  • Finland
  • Sweden
  • Germany
  • Switzerland
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Belgium
  • Costa Rica
  • Spain
  • Luxembourg
  • Australia
  • Estonia
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • United Kingdom
  • Austria
  • France
  • South Korea
  • Lithuania
  • Italy
  • Portugal
  • Canada
  • Japan
  • Taiwan
  • Uruguay
  • Cyprus
  • Chile
  • Slovakia
  • Greece
  • Czech Republic
  • Latvia
  • Barbados
  • Israel

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    Speaking for NZ, while we do have things like:

    Cheap or free healthcare

    Roads in good condition

    Low corruption/Limited power

    Excellent conservation

    Great public services

    High level of safety

    Very strong employment laws

    Very low exploitation

    Very open press

    Free speech

    Almost nearly adequate climate policies

    We are still stuck with a lot of people who have the red vs blue mindset. People often vote for the party that is most likely to stop the party they don’t want getting in to power.

    We have MMP here, which is of course the best system, we have political parties across the spectrum so that the largest amount of people have representation. But goddam it’s always the same 2 in majority power.

    There’s delay in progressive change, eg decriminalizing weed, providing better health services.

    When the wrong party is in (team blue) they focus on the wrong things ie building even more roads instead of improving public transport etc.

    When the less wrong party is in (team red) they focus on appearing to do things that we care about but do a bad job.

    It’s difficult to nail down general specifics but I think you get the idea.